Diseases and their descriptions

 

DISEASES & DESCRIPTION
Ablepsy - Blindness
American Plague - Yellow fever
Aphonia - Laryngitis
Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke
Ascites - Cancer of the ovaries
Bad Blood - Syphilis
Bilious Fever - Over production of bile by the liver; Characterized by indigestion, nausea, dullness, dizziness, or other disorders
Black Plague/Black Death - Bubonic plague
Black Fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate
Black Pox - Black Small pox
Black Vomit - Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever.
Blackwater Fever - Dark urine associated with high temperature
Bladder in Throat - Diphtheria
Bone Shave - Sciatica
Brain Fever - Meningitis
Bright's Disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Bronchitis - Inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, characterized by a cough
Bronze John - Yellow fever
Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling
Camp fever - Typhus, Camp diarrhea
Catalepsy - Seizures/Trances
Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Child Bed Fever - Infection following birth of a child
Chin Cough - Whooping cough
Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing
Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
Cold Plague - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping
Congestion - Too much blood gathering in one part of the body
Congestive Chills - Malaria
Congestive Fever - Malaria Consumption
Consumption - Tuberculosis
Convulsions - Spasms; Involuntary contracting & relaxing of the muscles
Corruption - Infection
Cramp Colic - Appendicitis
Crop Sickness - Overextended stomach
Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
Day Fever - Fever lasting one day, sweating sickness
Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed
Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age
Dentition - Teething
Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat
Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
Dock Fever - Yellow fever
Dropsy - Edema/Swelling, often caused by kidney or heart disease
Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis
Dry Bellyache - Lead poisoning
Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood
Ecstasy - A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
Edema - Nephrosis, swelling of tissues
Edema of Lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy
Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy
Encephalitis - Swelling of brain, aka sleeping sickness
Enteric Fever - Typhoid fever
Enteriitis - An inflammation of the small or large intestine characterized by diarrhea, cramps, loss of appetite, and loss of weight; caused by food poisoning, typhoid, or dysentery
Epilepsy - A chronic nervous disease whose attacks cause convulsions & sometimes unconsciousness
Falling Sickness - Epilepsy
Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea
French Pox - Syphilis
Gathering - A collection of pus
Gravel - A small hard substance formed in the bladder & kidneys
Great pox - Syphilis
Green Fever - Anemia
Grocer's Itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
Heart Sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body
Heat Stroke - Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed
Hepatitus - An inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or poor sanitation
Hives - Characterized by itchy (& red patches) skin
Horrors - Delirium tremens
Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain
Hydrophobia - Rabies
Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest
Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart
Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Inanition - Weakness from a lack of food
Infantile Paralysis - Polio
Jail Fever - Typhus
Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines; causes yellowness of the skin, eyes, & body fluids, & disturbed vision
King's Evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
Kruchhusten - Whooping cough
Lagrippe - Influenza
Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
Long Sickness - Tuberculosis
Lues Disease - Syphilis
Lumbago - Back pain
Lung Fever - Pneumonia
Lung Sickness - Tuberculosis
Malaria - Characterized by periodic chills followed by fever & sweating
Malignant Sore Throat/Membranous Croup - Diphtheria
Mania - Insanity
Measles - An infectious disease characterized by a bad cold, fever, & a breaking out of small red spots on the skin
Meningitis - Inflation of brain or spinal cord
Milk Fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis
Milk Leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis
Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
Mormal - Gangrene
Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue
Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue
Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys
Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles
Paroxysm - Convulsion
Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters
Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart
Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area
Phthiriasis - Lice infestation
Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate
Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath
Pneumonia - Sickness resulting in the inflammation of the lungs
Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis
Pott's Disease - Tuberculosis of spine
Puerperal Fever - Fever related to childbirth
Puking Fever - Milk sickness
Putrid Fever - Diphtheria
Quinsy - Tonsillitis
Remittent Fever - Fever that lessens at intervals
Remitting Fever - Malaria
Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with pain in joints
Rickets - Disease of skeletal system
Rose Cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Rubeola - German measles
Scarlatina - Scarlet fever
Scarlet Fever - A disease characterized by red rash
Scarlet Rash - Roseola
Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips
Screws - Rheumatism
Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease.
Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin
Septicemia - Blood poisoning
Shakes - Delirium tremers
Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters
Ship Fever - Typhus
Siriasis- - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure
Sloes - Milk sickness
Small Pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters
Spanish Influenza - Epidemic influenza
Spasms - Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion
Spina Bifida - Deformity of spine
Spotted Fever - Either typhus or meningitis
Sprue - Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat
St Anthony's - Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas are bright red in appearance
St Vitas Dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntary
Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth
Stranger's Fever - Yellow fever
Summer Complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause
Swamp Sickness - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
Sweating Sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century
Syphilis - A contagious venereal disease
Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness
Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel
Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat
Tick Fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever
Trench Mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene
Tussis Convulsiva - Whooping cough
Typhoid - Fever with intestinal inflammation, caused by a germ taken into the body with food or drink
Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness
Variola - Smallpox
Viper's Dance - St. Vitus Dance
Water on Brain - Enlarged head
White Swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone
Whooping Cough - Coughing fits that end with a loud, gasping sound
Winter Fever - Pneumonia
Womb Fever - Infection of the uterus
Worm - A disease caused by worms in the body
Worm Fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms elevated temperature or diarrhea
Yellowjacket - Yellow fever

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